Heel.



S. L. SNEIERSON.

HEEL.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE l4 1912.

Patented Jan. 5, 1915.

VV/r/v 5555 UNTTED STE 'r are SAMUEL L. SNEIERSON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO INDEPENDENT BUTTON FASTENER MACHINE COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORA- TION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

Specification of Letters 1atent.-

HEEL.

mama Jan. 5, 11915.

a the following is a specification.

This invention relates to rubber heels and particularly to an armored heel in which the rubber is protected and the heel reinforced by a metallic frame.

Rubber heels have frequently proved unsatisfactory for wearers who tend to run over their shoes. This has caused the heel to wear away in one place and finally under the strain of unequal tread to become laterallv displaced and distorted.

The construction and effect of my device will be more fully described in the specification which follows.

In the drawings which form a part of that specification, I have shown a heel with a, form of reinforcement which I have found well adapted to practical use and well adapted to the end of commercial production.

Throughout specification and drawings like reference numerals are employed to indicate corresponding parts and in the draw ings :-Figure 1 is a View of the bottom surface of a rubber heel, Fig. 2 is a sectional view along the line 2+2, Fig. 1, Fig. 3 a

plan view of the plate and Fig. 4 an edge View of the same.

My heel comprises a molded rubber heel blank 1 having embodied in it a plate consisting ofa marginal wear receiving flange 2 with an inwardly eritending late 3 set in a different plane and lodged within the rubber of the heel. The plate 3 has a central opening ,7 through which the rubber of the heel 1 is molded to hold the plate in place. The frame is provided with openings 4 for the passage of screws 4, and openings 6' for the passage of the screws 6. The screws 6 engage threaded openings in a plate 5 seton the upper surfa e of the rubber heel which is to come next to the leather lifts of the ordinary heel of the shoe as indicated at H in dotted lines.

The wear plate 2 overhangs the portion 3 leaving the shoulder. 8 which is also embedded in the rubber of the heel, as indicated in Fig. 2. The fastening screws 4 for attaching the rubber heel and the plates to the leather lifts pass through the openings 4 in the frame 3 and pass just outside of the edges of the triangular plate 5, which is set in the opposite direction to the general triangular frame 3 which permits of the fastening together of these two plates by the screws 6 withoutthe necessity of fastenm the screws 4 through the plate 5 and attaching the rubber heel to the shoe. It will thus be seen that the plate 3 isnot only firmly held by its lodgment in the heel and its complete env'elopment and penetration by the molded rubber. but it is b aced b the upper plate 5 which is backed bv the nonrcsil ent lifts of the leather heel. The screws 6 which,unite these plates 3 and 5 make a cage or frame which supports the heel and pre ents it from running over.

The embedding in a molded body of rubber of a wear resisting plate having an opening in it with the bodv of the r' bber passing through the opening is capable of a. great Varietv of uses.

While I have particularlv described my invention as applied to rubber heels it'is obviously capable of application to many other articles. as automobile tires and other like articles which require strengthening and protection.

Various modifications in the structure and form of mv device ma obviously be made, all without departing from the spirit of my invent on it within the limits of the appended claim.

VVhat I therefore claim and desire to se- A cure by Letters Patent is:

A detachable cushion heel adapted to be fastened to a heel and comprising a molded rubber bodv, an open substantially triangular wear frame set in said bodv. said frame having an oilset marginal wear portion dis frame, said lug and frame sides pierced for In testimony whereof I affix my signature fastenings, and a substantially trilangular in presence of two Witnesses.

supporting plate set against the bee proper in opposite relation to saidiframe and se- SAMUELL' SNEIERSON' curedlto said frame by fastenings passing Witnesses:

through said openings in the frame sides JOsEPH W. Downs,

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